TEACHERS NOTES Making an animal mask

by Hans Mol

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Level: Elementary Target age: 8-10 Time needed: 30 minutes Objectives: To make a lion mask Vocabulary: face, eyes, cheeks, nose and head Task nouns: whiskers, paper plate, string, pipe cleaner, glue, scissors, pencils, hole punch and elastic band Verbs: check, put, make, use, cut, glue, draw and punch Materials (for each child): a copy of each worksheet, string, pipe cleaners, scissors, pencils, glue

Worksheet 2
This worksheet shows an outline of a lions head. You can copy this and the children can cut out the shape, if you do not have paper plates. Show the worksheet to the children and say: This is a lions head. We are going to cut this out. Speak slowly and use very clear hand movements to illustrate the instruction.

Worksheet 3
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Talk about your lion. What is your lion like? Complete the sentences. Check understanding of the adjectives and their opposites, for instance by miming and writing the words on the board. Show children pictures from magazines of animals showing some of these characteristics. Hand out the worksheet. Let the children fill in the sentence about their lion and make a drawing of it. Let the children act and show who they are as a lion (show their personality). They must say I am and I am not and put expression into the adjectives when they say them. So, say old as an old word, friendly as a friendly word, etc. You can also let them say other things like how old they are, what they like doing etc.

Introduce the language

Tell the children they are going to make a lion mask and that you will give them instructions in English. Tell them that later on they will also describe their lion.

Worksheet 1
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Listen to the instructions. Write the words in your language. Explain to the children that they are going to listen to instructions in English. Pre-teach the vocabulary, using worksheet 1. The children will not need to know all words actively, but need to recognize them during the task. Let the children write the translation of the words on the worksheet. You can also deal with the words as you go along (see next paragraph). Hand out the materials to each child. Hold objects up, while you say This is . Say each instruction line. Speak slowly and use very clear hand movements to illustrate the nouns and verbs, and then let the children guess what it is they need to do. While children are making the mask stimulate and help them, using phrases like Well-done; Thats nice; That looks great; Glue it well; Nice colours; Is this the nose?; This can be the mouth; Put it here.

Follow up The children work in pairs. They make up a story with their lions. Ask them to first mime their story and let other children guess what the lions are doing and saying (reinforcement of present continuous); then let children act their dialogue while speaking.

TEACHERS NOTES Making an animal mask

by Hans Mol

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Instructions Check you have everything on your table. Put the plate on your face. Draw two eyes. I will help you. Cut out the eyes. Draw two circles for the cheeks. Cut out a nose and stick it on. Draw the eyebrows. Make whiskers with pipe cleaners. Glue them on. Glue string around the head. Punch two holes in the mask. Put elastic bands in the holes. Put your mask on!

Hints for the teacher Say: Have you got a paper plate, string, etc. Show the children how to do this. Draw the eyes on each mask. Help children if they need help. Show them how to do this. Help children if they need help. Help children if they need help. Help children if they need help. Help children if they need help. Help children if they need help. Show children how to loop the band through itself so it stays on the mask and can be looped around the ears. Tell students about the second activity (Worksheet 3).

WORKSHEET 1 Making an animal mask

by Hans Mol

Today we are going to make an animal mask.

1. Listen to the instructions. Write the words in your language.
Things paper plate string pipe cleaner glue scissors crayons hole puncher

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Activities check put make cut glue draw punch

WORKSHEET 2 Making an animal mask

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1. Make your lion mask.

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WORKSHEET 3 Making an animal mask

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1. What is your lion like? Complete the sentences to describe your lion. Use the words in the box.
friendly / unfriendly bad / good beautiful / ugly

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happy / unhappy My lion is and My lion is not and My lion is My lion likes . . and

old / young

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years old. .

2. Draw a picture that shows your lions personality.